The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-09-30
BREAKFAST DISH.

ill candle light on account OF the yell
low there is in them. So white, so
clear, so brilliant, pellucid as q water
drop and sparkling as a star! 1t was
oil but big enough, too, to have a
name Of it's own, like those that the
royal diamonds have-'Star Of the
Four Points OF the Compass Light
Of the World to come Glory of the
Middle of the Earth Mother OF the
Moon Why under the sum-" cried
Mrs. Torrance, the pretty creature in
q bewitchlng gown, pouring coffee for
her husband, the little butler having
been dismissed by Mr.. Torrance-in
fear OF the wrath to come, perhaps
Eshouldn't our diamonds have names
as we'll as those of filings and queen"
Yours ought to have one" said
her husband, quietly. ut would be
suitable to call now; it's in the voca.
tive, you know"
"Well, l must say / don't believe
any MAI was ever so disturbed by the
loss OF such a thing as that. Archi,
bald, that stone was worth a thous.
and dollars"
Really, l ought to be aware OF the
fact, dear, if any n is. You have Of
fered to sell it and procure the sum
for my necessities every time l have
been hard up since we married. And
if l have Mildred arrested for this
theft, as you suggest, it will cost an
other thousand before we arc done
with it; for she would certainly be
proved innocent, and then a libel suit
would be the next thing in order"
But, Archy, Mildred can't be prov
cd innocent. How can she be, when l
know she took it? And there was no
one else to take it," And Mrs. Tor
rance paused with suspended cup, her
great wondering eyes searching space
for a reply. "If ever anything lay in
a straight line, it is the evidence
against that girl" she continued.
1.-THE other day when the ring fell on
the floor she was in the room, and
she asked me what a stone like that
was worth, and then gave such a sigh
that / said: 4 suppose you think it's
wrong for me to wear $1,000 on my
inger2' And she said: Il wasn't
thinking of the ring; / was only
thinking that $1,000 can do a great
deal Of good. The mink Well /
said, 1T does a great deal Of good-in
looking pretty on my hand Indeed
it does look beautiful there said she
she's very particular about her adj
verbs; l wish she was about her cate
ohism-'but q good deed done by q
hand is it's most beautiful jewel, to
my thinking Just hear that! To
her mistressl Are you through
Why. I've only just begun"
"She is quite a missionary" said
Mr Torrance, picking up his ,newspa-
per. "And the worst OF it is, she is
right"
HNow, Archibald, don't, for mercy's
sake, 60 to reading" said his wife. 81
do think the morning news might wait
for once. It's nothing but dynamiters
blowing up the British empire and
Arabs making mummies OF the British
army-all abstractiens; but my ring
is something positive, tangible here at
hand"
~ wish it were" said Mr.. Torrance.
aAnd then / could be SLOWED"
But as ne glanced at the lovely Great
ure opposite, with her reproachful
brown eyes, in which stood two tears
as big as the diamond she mad
lost, her color going and coming with
her breath. as you might say, and the
rose-colored ribbons of her morning
cap all a-iutter with her earnestness,
he folded his paper and said: "Well,
my dearsD
well, my dearl" mimicked Mrs.
Torrance, in derision. 81 should say
it's anything but well when a man
hears OF q servant insulting-actually
insulting-his wife. and says she's in
the right"
aNow, Janet / will submit to your
own Judgment if that's q fair inter-
probation.
"You needn't do anything of the
sort. II isn't iair to suppose | have
any Judgment, if what / say concern
ing Mildred-perfectly ridiculous cog
nomen. Who ever heard Mildred for
a servants manner"
"Why not Mildred?"
"Why not Gwendolins, rnen, or
Eredeeonde, or Thusnelda? How
would it seem to be telling Gladys TO
brush the dust off my shoes? And Mil
bred Ii just as bad. II / had my way,
all the cooks should be Noras and all
the soeeaa 4 iris should be EEaiiiens, and
il they came from England. thea they
should be ELIAS and Mary AIMS, and
it wouldn'ksound as if you were tax
inga liberty with your superiors when
your 1--WE name is just plain jane. l
ought to have been Kosamond my
sell, you know said Mrs. Torrancs,
absently, twirling the grounds il her
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